Sandy Chinski Photography

06/01/2025

Ok my this is my last post for a while. Lol. I went out with friends to photograph and find baby Wild Colts. We found a lot this year and we had an amazing time just spending time with them. Hope you love them like we did.

06/01/2025

I went for a little paddle with my kayak this week and got a couple of shots in. Thought I would share these photos too.

06/01/2025

I haven't posted for a long long time. Went to Vietnam and Thailand for 6 weeks without my camera. Len shared our iPhone pictures as we traveled.

I have gone to a few places since returning home from our dream vacation. My first was to Nordegg area to shoot the Milky Way. We even encountered a little aurora. I thought I would share.

10/09/2024

I went on a two night trip with a few friends to Dinosaur Provincial Park near Brooks last week and we had one clear night to play in the Hoodoos. What fun we had. Here are a few captures of that one night and the next day. We even saw a little aurora that night too.

10/08/2024

Went out late for the light show last night but I was able to capture a few photos. I was in a hurry and forgot to change out my slippers. lol. I was in farmers fields and high grasses to get some of these photos. Next time I will remember my shoes. lol

09/16/2024

I went Kayaking with my friend Gail Kirkelund and captured an Osprey that had just caught a fish, a beaver adding to his home, a juvenile bald eagle and his stunning mom and dad. I love days of summer like this. I hope you enjoy the photos.

07/03/2024

06/20/2024

These are some of my favourite photos taken so far this summer. This cute little blonde bear stretching over this big rock to lift it. With his hind paws he pushed hard and pulled with his big front paws and his long claws. He managed to lift it even as heavy as it was and then stood on it as if he was the king of the castle. He showed that rock who was boss. Learning all this from his mom and watching him put it into practice was truly an amazing sight. Please enjoy the beauty of nature as it is wonderful for the soul.

06/19/2024

Found these little babies in Red Deer today. The Coot babies "Called Cooties"sure are ugly but interesting looking. The baby grebes are still pretty new as they are riding on moms back. They interchange between riding on mom or dads back for up to two weeks.

06/18/2024

Well I thought I would share some bald eagle photos now. These are a few of my many favourites from the Jasper area. I am not sure if anyone out there knew it or not but when a bald eagle gets old it's beak starts curling under. This proves difficult for this beautiful bird as it has a harder time plucking it's own feathers, fishing and hunting larger prey animals. It's claws also grow too long some times hinder hunting. This causes the bald eagle to to have difficulty as it's feathers grow heavier, it has to eat mice rather than larger pray and it is more vulnerable to other large birds. As you can see in the one photo of the eagle on a fallen tree, his beak is very large and turned under. One of his feather is sticking out of his plumage. Made my heart hurt a little as I knew he was going through this stage.

06/18/2024

I had an amazing time in and around Jasper a week or so ago and here are a few of my bear photos. We saws 11 bears the first day but not so lucky but not skunked the following couple of days. If you like these you will like the next ones I post I bet. :-)

01/11/2024

I went on a little outing with some of my photography friends. We went out to Big Horn Falls. The Falls were not as spectacular as I was hoping they were going to be but all in all it was fun getting out and taking photos of it. We saw a large herd of about 15 wild horses on the trip. We spotted a few other herds but they were a little too far off in the hills to get a shot off. The river was mostly frozen. lol. seemed pretty safe until I heard a bunch of cracking underneath. I was getting a little too complacent. It wasn't deep where it happened anyway. lol. I'll never know. hahaha